NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 and AMD Radeon R9 M270X. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GK208BGPU NameSaturn
Kepler 2.0ArchitectureGCN 2.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
28 nmProcess Size28 nm
1,020 millionTransistors2,080 million
87 mm²Die Size160 mm²

Graphics Card

Sep 29th, 2014Release DateFeb 5th, 2015
GeForce 700FamilyCrystal System
(R9 M200)
End-of-lifeProductionActive
GeForce 600PredecessorSolar System
PCIe 2.0 x8Bus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size2 GB
DDR3Memory TypeGDDR5
64 bitMemory Bus128 bit
12.80 GB/sBandwidth88.00 GB/s

Performance

3.188 GPixel/sPixel fillrate16.00 GPixel/s
12.75 GTexel/sTexture fillrate48.00 GTexel/s
306.0 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance1.536 TFLOPS
12.75 GFLOPS (1:24)FP64 (double) performance96.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective

Render Config

192Shading Units768
16TMUs48
8ROPs16
16 KB (per SMX)L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)
512 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

19 WThermal design power (TDP)unknown
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX12 (12_0)
4.6OpenGL4.6
3.0OpenCL2.0
1.1Vulkan1.2
5.1Shader Model6.3